Increasing solar energy investment opportunities will become available in 2014 as a result of financial innovation helping to accelerate project deployment and cost cutting. Historically, solar energy projects are difficult to finance because of high fixed costs and long investment return terms. As a result, the margin of error on risk evaluation is much greater…...
DOE has announced $49M in funding for critical vehicle technologies alongside its 2012 EV Everywhere Grand Challenge progress report release. On January 22, 2014, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced $49M in funding to support new vehicle technologies including its EV Everywhere Grand Challenge, a 2012 program which aims to make plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)…...
A federal appeals court ruled that DOE’s 2008 oil lease sale offshore Alaska was based on a flawed production estimate. On January 22, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Department of Interior’s (DOI) 2008 lease sale (Lease Sale 193) for oil and gas development in the Chukchi Sea…...